Crankbait Options For Spring

THE MORE HIS contemporaries don’t use crankbaits, the better Matt Robertson likes it, especially in the spring. Crankbaits aren’t everyone’s favorite lure during the spawning season, but on Robertson’s home water, Kentucky Lake, he has perfected techniques for using them, and even better, he has learned those same techniques will work on lakes around the country.

One of his techniques, slow rolling a lipless crankbait near the bottom, is something he learned when he was 11 years old. It was during a March bass club tournament he was fishing with his grandmother on Kentucky Lake, and after seeing her lose a huge fish in the 10-pound range on a lipless crankbait, he spent the rest of the